Hello Anthony, and a very warm welcome to Service Design Sydney.

So this site is something a few of us (Zafer, Justin, Linda, Fiona, Katya) talked about at UX SD 12 and also at the #NewtownCM – a social site built by the service designers of Sydney for the service designers of Sydney.

Of course there's already a lot going on in Sydney – but we felt an online social context was also possible – and the SD ning site in Melbourne was an inspiration too.

Here you can:

• write blog posts
• add events, photos and videos to the site,
• start topics in the forum (when I figure out how to turn it on),
• invite service designers you know to join,
• comment on just about everything, or
• just keep an eye on what's happening.

This being a social site the more we all do here the more interesting it becomes for everyone.

While there's no editor deciding what gets published there may be just a bit of post facto moderation to keep it clean and on-topic.

I hope you enjoy your time on the site and find it useful.

Best wishes,
Adrian Wiggins